to prepare the appropriate documents and notify the board of supervisors and the ethics commission. i have informed the sheriff that he will be served charges tomorrow. >> reporter: all this happened one day after ed lee issued mirkarimi an ultimatum. resign by today or face an investigation. the board can refuse to keep him or fire him. >> i do not believe that the conduct that i have taken, taking responsibility for constitutes official misconduct within the meaning of the law. and i look forward to making my case to the ethics commission and the board of supervisors. >> as public officials our first responsible must always be to fulfill the obligations entrusted to us by the people of san francisco. and we must always be held to

the highest legal and ethical standards. >> reporter: this stems from a domestic violence came involving mirkarimi and his wife. for now mirakrimi is suspended without pay. if he isn't successful in those proceedings some folks say they will mount a recall campaign this november. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. the mayor says charges of official misconduct will be served against sheriff mirkarimi tomorrow. an ethics commission will hear the case then it will send its recommendations to the board of supervisors. the supervisors will vote on those recommendations and at least nine out of one supervisors must vote yes to

have sheriff mirkarimi from office. mayor lee called hennessey well respected and said she will provide stabilizing leadership to the department. ben we broke this news first online and you can stay with ktvu.com for mayor developments or download our mobile ktvu act to get breaking news as it happens on your phone -- again, we broke this news first online. the contra costa county district attorney's office says officer pattel is charged with battery and false imprisonment stepping from an arrest in san ramon. the concord police department says officer pattel is on administrative leave. investigators ramped up their effort to try to find a 15-year-old girl who hasn't been seen now in 14 days. janine de la vega is joining us now where she spoke to neighbors who are also questioned by sheriff deputies today. >> reporter: frank a sheriff spokesperson told us a short time ago that they are still going through sierra's laptop

and her cell phone records. they tell us that her last tweet was on 6:23 on friday morning. they have 30 detectives working on this plus a task force. they are making this one of their top priorities finding her. detectives went back to the neighborhood where sierra was last seen. they went door to door reinterviewing neighbors to see if they saw anything suspicious. >> they asked if i heard anything, if i saw anything. no it's a quiet neighborhood. >> if i wasn't happening to looking out the window, nobody else would be seeing anything out here. it's not remote but it's rural and there's little traffic that goes by. >> reporter: her cell phone was found in a field less than a mile away but in the opposite direction of her school rout. police have been contacting sexual offenders. sierra's father is a registered

sex offender but police say he is not a person of interest and is being cooperative. >> i don't want to focus on that i want to focus on finding sierra and finding her quickly. >> reporter: friend posted this you tube video of sierra at disneyland. they want to let the world know he's missing. >> we believe in the power of prayer. we believe in many people praying and we just want to get the faith. keep our faith. bring sierra home safely. >> the vigil for sierra tonight is planned at 8:00 p.m. reporting live in morgan hill, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. and coming up in 10 minutes the mysterious case of a san francisco man who hasn't been seen since he said good night to his camping buddies a week ago. happening right now aftershocks are still being felt in southern mexico where a

7.4 magnitude earthquake hit this afternoon. it shows a pedestrian bridge collapsed on to an empty bus. and about 200 miles from the epicenter in mexico city. the quake created panic. people there still remember the deadly quake in 1985 that killed 10,000 people. no major damage was reported in mexico city today but as many as 800 homes sustained damage closer to the e picenter. here in the area, people with family members in mexico are relieved to hear that the damage was not as bad. the mexican general council in san francisco tells ktvu there is a possibility -- >> we are waiting for official information. gradually it's coming. fortunately in general terms there are no victims at this

point. >> telephone service was down in parts of mexico city for a time making it difficult for people here in the bay area to reach family members there. most of that phone service has since been restored the polls closed just an hour ago in illinois but mitt romney is the apparent winner in that state's primary. right now with 19% of the precincts reporting, romney leads former pennsylvania senator rick santorum 55% to 28%. newt gingrich is third followed by ron paul. a woman from san jose who cares for hundreds of exotic birds at her home is facing a show down tonight with city hall. only on 2, robert handa live in san jose with a look inside the hobby that city hall is calling a business. robert. >> reporter: well we are at the house and inside a room where many of the exotic birds are kept and where hundreds have

lived for the past decade. now complaints have led that woman into a battle with city hall. linda stewart has names for the exotic birds that fill her home and yard. there are hundreds of colorful birds. and she says their health proves of how well she cares for the birds. >> i have a girl over there, she's 30 years old. if i wasn't doing it right i don't think she would still be with us. >> reporter: but agencies don't agree. a bird rescue group called the living conditions filthy, overcrowded and noisy. stewart says she's had up to 400 birds here and with family support it's not too many. >> if you have enough people coming in and help you with the taking care of everything, absolutely nothing. i know people who have 6,000. >> reporter: officials told me there is no regulation on the number of pet that is can be

kept as pets but stewart has been told that she cannot breed any of the birds. stewart says that she has to sell some of them to pay for expenses. >> the city has been coming to people like mist and trying to shut us down for one reason or another. most people leave because they just can't stand the harassment any longer. >> reporter: but city code enforcement says it will send a compliance order to stewart tomorrow. if stewart decides to fight the order she will face fines and penalties that may have to be resolved before a citizen's appeal board. robert handa, ktvu news. four people pleaded not guilty today to misdemeanor charges stemming from an occupy protest at uc berkeley. three students students and an

alumni are being charged. they are being barred from campus expect for class. >> these are absolutely politically motivated charges that we're demanding be dropped now. >> the alameda county attorney's office woud not comment on this case. the safe sf ordnance would require police officers who work with the fbi joint terrorism task force to be subject to local oversight. supporters say they've received complaints from people who claim they were questioned about seemingly legal activities. we've seen throughout the country that the fbi has sent informants into mosques to record people's conversations. we've seen that agents will open up investigations without any reasonable suspicion. >> the ordnance is up for a second vote next week before it goes to mayor ed lee. san francisco police chief greg

suhr wants the mayor to veto it. parents who's children attend a san francisco school have rallied to keep that school open. the oakland school board voted last october to close it and four other schools to deal with a budget shortfall. >> in the last 10 years, every single school, the school board has closed down has been african american or latino. >> the oakland school district has planned to close as many as 30 more schools but then changed course saying the additional closures were not necessary. state lawmakers today diskraoeubed ways of how to close -- today described ways of how to close gaps. lawmakers also discussed the effective one year reprieve

granted to amazon.com last fall for collecting sales tax from it customers in this state. this man was camping with friends, but he never made it to his tent. why one hour was so crucial to saving the historic santa cruz beach boardwalk. >> back here in 10 minutes we have the latest computer model and we have rain in your forecast. the forecast has rain for the weekend. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar,

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afghan civilians says his client blacked out. brown also disputed reports that his client was drunk at the time. state assembly republicans today unveiled 13 bills designed to help veterans returning from combat. the legislation covers protecting a vet's child custody rights to extending the lenght of time they've given priority at community colleges and universities. >> these men and women have given us a gift that we can never fully repay. but we can make a promise which we did that we would serve them in return. >> one of those veterans is republican assemblyman jeff carrell of southern california who is serving as an intelligence officer in afghanistan. he is expected back on the assembly floor on april 9th. the family of a san francisco man is hoping for answers tonight after the 68-

year-old personal training disappeared a week -- trainer disappeared a week ago. jeff pritchett spoke to the man's wife. >> reporter: jeff cohler has chris crossed this country. he's a 68-year-old man who does not show his age. >> if anyone is going to get lost and then found it's george because the man is an iron man. >> reporter: his wife prudy says there are no answers. he was with a cycling group on a tour of death valley national park. prudy says her husband was at a campfire with friend, walked away to go to sleep but apparently never made it to his tent. >> his bicycle was there. was left at the camp. >> reporter: a massive search effort has been under way since tuesday. no sign of kohler's trail.

>> we've been fairly fortunate with weather. it's been in the 70s pretty much through the day, 40s at night. so not as hot as normally it is in death valley. >> reporter: prudy says she went to death valley and returned home for emotional support as she awaits any news. >> yeah, i will go back. because i want him back and i will go back to bring him home. >> reporter: george kohler is missing a long way from home but his wife hopes that wide media attention can jar someone's memory who might have seen him perhaps along that lone road leading to that camp site in death valley. the wall street firm is handling facebook's ipo will be making much less. the big banks underwriting have agreed to a .1% fee rather than the typical three to 7% fee. a source said the firm's agrees

because of the prestige of being part of that block buster ipo for facebook. google has hired the founder of dig, kevin rose to try to revive its website google plus. the web giant paid up to $15 million to buy rose' latest company named milk. we reported on rose on the success of dig in 2006. but since then that site has faded in popularity. california should tighten regulation of a pesticide. some people recently reported irritated eyes and lungs when it was sprayed on near by fields. the pesticide action network says it found levels four to five times higher than is considered safe for human health. the san lorenzo river has been redirected away from the historic beach boardwalk. it's a story we've been following with live reports since last wednesday.

you may recall that's when the swollen river took a sharp turn. instead of run into the ocean it threatened to undermine the boardwalk. >> we built a berm. and if we would have waited an hour more we would have had serious problems. >> the park should be fully opened to visitors by this weekend. news chopper 2 took these pictures of light dusting of snow that lingered on mount hamilton this afternoon. bill martin joins us now. he's live in the weather center with our next chance of rain. bill. >> more rain in the forecast as we go through this week. major rain for the weekend. a few sprinkles, not a big deal. as we get into the weekend a big deal. we go to storm tracker 2. just know that san jose downtown 63 degrees. it's mild outside. temperatures today warmed up. we had mid-60s. highs tomorrow warm further. we're going to see temperatures tomorrow into the mid- and

upper 60s. as we get into the weekend. we have rain in the forecast especially on saturday. overnight lows are in the 40s. cloudy tonight, i don't think we'll see much frost. the system i'm tracking right now sort of twofold. here's a system here. this is the leading edge of it. this slides through tomorrow on thursday. that opens the door for the next system which is building in the gulf of alaska as we speak. that is the bay area weekend system that has some legs. that thing looks like it's going to drop. a low pressure center drops down. starts on saturday and looks like it lingers through sunday. the long range computer model, thursday morning. this slides through thursday morning it will deposit some light sprinkles. that's your thursday morning commute. not a gully washer but kind of wet out there. and then you get into thursday

afternoon and it clears right out. friday looks fine and here comes the tee up for saturday. there it is. saturday morning, saturday afternoon. there's rain moves up into the mountains on sunday morning. and then this next system slides through the bay area on sunday evening. so more weather in the forecast. looks like saturdays system has more juice than the sunday system. forecast highs tomorrow. second day of spring. temperatures are going to feel like it. 67 in morgan hill. 66 in gilroy, in the five day forecast. the weekend is going to be a wash out on that saturday. we'll watch it as the models change. >> it's possible that we could get hammered in washington. >> we'll come back at 10:00 and update the model. >> thank you, bill. coming up on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. due announcements spell out a

show down. we'll detail the steps that have to happen before sheriff mirkarimi is removed from office. join us at 7:00 on tv 36. it is the a story we first told you on sunday. what we have learned about a dog who is accused of mauling a san francisco woman. patp8 @

the owners of a dog suspected of attacking a woman and killing her dog have now been sited and fined. it's a story we first brought you sunday. kim ferguson says a 90-pound dog killed her 20-pound poodle as they were walking in their san francisco neighborhood last month. police say it was an anonymous tip that led them to the dog's owner yesterday who says the dog is now in gilroy at obedience school. the owners were sited for having a dog off leash that attacked a person. they went through large hurdles to track the dog down because

of a dog mauling last year. the police department says it's not taking any chances anymore. the question really is where was he -- was alex smith really going to go. alex smith and the niners agreed to a knewen contract today. so alex smith will be back for the 49ers for his eighth consecutive season. peyton manning stood with owner bolen and elway. peyton says if there was a game on sunday he could play. manning becomes the highest paid quarterback. >> you know it'll be speculated on and debated for months to come whether it was the right decision or not. i'm going to go out and make it

the right decision. i don't look back. >> it was a typical tebow response where he was very positive. he said well we're talking about peyton manning and i understand exactly what you're doing. noter dame, golden bears were in this game. the irish put together a 36 run. cal loses, finishes the season with a 23-10 record. cal does not have a single senior on the team so they should be back in the tournament again. they look really good for such a young team. >> julie, you called me heather. >> that's my fault. outside of the box here. >> thanks, fred. tonight family and friends are gathering for another vigil as they continue to search for

a missing teenager in fairfield. >> also on the 10:00 news the very latest from san francisco city hall as mayor lee takes steps to oust sheriff mirkarimi. thank you for trusting ktvu news. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind.

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